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The Return

2006 · 85 min

A slow, unsettling drift through fragmented visions and buried secrets, more mournful than scary, with a chill that lingers.

Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott

Tagline: The past never dies. It kills.
Overview: Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

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Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
trauma
identity
isolation
fate
Places: small town
road trip
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	6
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: horror, drama, thriller
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Adam Sussman
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, Sam Shepard, J.C. MacKenzie, Wally Welch, Brad Leland
Music: Dario Marianelli
Cinematography: Roman Osin
Runtime: 85 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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